Iran has arrested a cleric close to late dissident Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri amid a fresh crackdown on opposition supporters, a reformist ...
Iran has banned most memorial services for dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri after his funeral turned into an opposition rally, a ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian security forces armed with batons and tear gas clashed with supporters of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in two cities on Wednesday, opposition websites said. But a senior local official denied reports of clashes ...
Religion news in brief Students filtered into the pews as church bells rang to mark the start of a Wyoming Catholic College noon mass, a service conducted in Latin on a recent fall day. The prospect of daily church services may not ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Members of an Islamic militia and "plainclothes men" attacked the house of a senior pro-reform cleric, Grand Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei, in the Shi'ite holy city of Qom on Tuesday, a reformist website said. The Norooz site said attackers insulted ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Opponents of Iran's most senior dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri stopped his memorial service in a tumultuous day in Qom on Monday which saw huge protests and some shots fired, websites said. The car of Iranian opposition ...
Iran police clashed with stone-throwing protesters after the funeral attended by vast crowds of mourners in Qom Monday of dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, websites said. Montazeri, an inspiration to Iran reformists and human rights activists and a fierce critic ...
Hundreds of thousands of mourners turned out in Iran's holy city of Qom on Monday for the funeral of top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, opposition websites reported. Montazeri, an inspiration to Iran reformists and human rights activists and a ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Big crowds of mourners chanted anti-government slogans during the funeral of Iran's leading dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, in the holy city of Qom on Monday, websites reported. Montazeri, who died on Saturday night aged 87, was ...
Thousands of mourners on Monday attended the funeral of Iran's top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, websites said, amid reports proceedings were violently disrupted by hardliners. Opposition website Rahesabz.net said "tens of thousands of people" were attending the funeral of ...
Spiritual father of Iran's reform movement dies; thousands gather in holy city for funeral The spiritual father of Iran's reform movement died Sunday at the age of 87, prompting thousands of his followers to immediately head to the holy city where the ...
Thousands of mourners converged on the Shiite holy city of Qom for the funeral on Monday of Iran's top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, opposition sources said. Montazeri, 87, a fierce critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, died of an illness ...
